United Natural Foods Optimizes Supply Chain

A fully optimized supply chain is an essential ingredient for food distribution companies, where freshness, shelf-time, seasonality and inventory management are year-round customer service considerations. As such, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI), the largest distributor to the natural, organic and specialty food industry in the United States, selects solutions from each suite of the Manhattan SCOPE supply chain process platform from Manhattan Associates to optimize its supply chain from planning through execution.

 

"Our supply chain transformation is driven by an overall goal of improving our service to customers while better managing inventory and ultimately the operating performance for our company, as well as our vendors and suppliers," says John Stern, senior vice president and chief information officer, UNFI. "In addition, a fully optimized supply chain will support our plans for growth over the next three to five years."

 

UNFI's Manhattan SCOPE portfolio selections include:

- Solutions from the Manhattan Distribution Management product suite will be implemented within UNFI distribution centers across the country.

- Solutions from the Transportation Lifecycle Management suite will help optimize the logistics of delivering more than 60,000 products to more than 17,000 customers.

- Manhattan Inventory Optimization and Demand Forecasting solutions are expected to replenish inventory and free cash flow while getting the right products to the right place at the right time.

- Solutions from Manhattan's Order Lifecycle Management suite will help further enhance UNFI's order fulfillment rate.

- Manhattan's Supply Chain Intelligence and Supply Chain Visibility applications will provide real-time insight into supply chain performance.